From Teens to Sparklings

Chapter 1 The Feeling of Drowning

Jack ducked behind a wall of stone as a Vehicon slammed into his previous hiding place. The Autobots had been investigating a newly discovered mine, one that had previously seemed safe enough to take the teens with them, when they had been jumped by the Decepticons. Now the teens were huddled inside a cavern within the mine.

He pushed Miko down when she tried to peek her head over their cover. She pouted and opened her mouth to complain when something slammed into their cover and sent them flying forward. The teens landed awkwardly a few meters away from their previous hiding place.

                           Crack!

Jack slowly looked down. The ground beneath him was splitting open. He froze, trying not to cause anymore damage. Miko and Raf were trying to get up, causing the ground to crack even more. "Miko! Raf! Stop moving, or else we'll-" he didn't get a chance to finish his sentence, because it was too late. The ground gave way and the teens screamed as they fell into the cavern below.

Jack closed his eyes, expecting death upon impact, when he felt himself hit water. His eyes shot open, only for him to have to close them again when the liquid touched them and made it feel like his eyes were on fire. He screamed in pain, resulting in the liquid, gushing into his mouth, drowning him slowly.

He tried to breath, but there was no more air left in his lungs. He felt himself go numb to the world, and opened his eyes, no longer feeling pain. The liquid was a brilliant bright blue, like energon only brighter and clearer. It wasn't a bad thing to see when you were dying, Jack decided, before his vision faded to black.

"Hello Jack. You don't know me yet, but trust me. It is not your time yet. I will bring you back, but not the same. You won't remember this conversation at first, but you will in time. Now you must wake up. Wake up Jack. Wake up."

Jack took a shuddering breath, spitting out the liquid. He opened his eyes, glancing around. He was on a bank, alone. 'Where are Raf and Miko? What happened?' he thought to himself. Oh, that's right. The ground had cracked open and they had fallen into the water. Had one of them dragged him out and wandered off?

He moved to sit up, only for something to for something to fall over his eyes. He muffled a yelp, trying to not make much noise, in case Decepticons were still around. He could still see, the object was like a visor. He raised his hand to flick it up, and froze.

Where he expected to see flesh was now replaced with black metal. His hand was clearly mechanical, and his fingers curved slightly, forming metal claws, the ends tinged with blue. He stared at his hand in shock, mind trying to comprehend what he was seeing. He slowly looked over the rest of his body, mind reeling, trying desperately to make sense of what had happened.

The black metal of his arms melted into a dull silver, leading up to shoulders plated in dark blue. His legs were much like his arms, silver turning to black. His feet were, like the rest of him, now Cybertronian, and thus shaped like it. The ends of his... toes? Were curved, like his fingers.

Jack shakily stood up, trying to adjust to this new form. He warily made his way over to the lakes edge, careful not to lose his balance, lest he fall in. He peered into the liquids reflective surface, and was even more shocked, if that was even possible.

He face looked much like what he imaged Optimus's face had looked like when he was young. Some differences being 3 black spikes on the sides of Jacks face, two small light pink stripes on either side of his face, above his cheeks, and the blue tinted visor. Jack flipped it up and examined his eyes. Bright, glowing blue, with the smallest tinge of very light pink.

Jack would have investigated himself further, but footsteps drew his attention away. Not knowing if they were friendly or not, he decided to risk not being found by the Autobots, and instead decided to escape down a different tunnel, hoping to find his friends.

I'm finally doing a Transformers Fanfic, Yay!
Next chapter will be focussed on Miko and Raf.